Diablo 3 Podcast #184: Patch 2.3.1 & Witch DoctorsPatch 2.3.1 on the PTR made a lot of changes, especially to the Witch Doctor. Much discussion of that class, plus Reflects Damage changes, Kanai’s Cube tweaks, Paragon 2000 is broken, and more. Featuring Xanth, Empty1, and Flux. Click through for more details and segment starting times.

Season 4 Conquests and Power CreepUnlike the new and enjoyable Season Journey which is composed entirely of Achievements you’ll “earn” through the (more or less) normal course of play, each Season also has some Conquests. These are like super achievements, e-peen style, requiring special efforts and a lot of end game grinding to achieve. Conquests required some powerful characters to […]

Reaper of Souls Beta and PTR Shutting Down Tonight

Surprise news that the Reaper of Souls Beta and PTR Shutting Down Tonight. As in 5 hours from now!

Reaper of Souls™ Closed Beta and Patch 2.0.1 PTR Draw to a Close

In preparation for the launch of patch 2.0.1, the Reaper of Souls™ Beta and Patch 2.0.1 PTR servers will be brought offline this evening at 5:00 p.m. PT. At that time, players will no longer be able to log in to the Beta or PTR client, all Beta and PTR accounts (including character information) will be reset, and both our Beta forums and PTR forums will be marked as read-only.

We’d like to thank everyone who has participated in the Reaper of Souls Beta and Patch 2.0.1 PTR. You’ve done an amazing job of testing, and we greatly appreciate all of the feedback you provided during this critical phase of development.

We look forward to releasing patch 2.0.1 to public shortly and encourage everyone to stay tuned to this website for exciting news and updates regarding the upcoming launch of Reaper of Souls!

I’m surprised and disappointed. I played a lot this weekend and had a great time, and so did just about everyone on my friend’s list and in the INC guild. That said… I guess that’s testimony that the beta “test” had pretty well run its course, if we were all just playing for fun, liking the reward rate, the exp gain rate, not finding bugs or crashes, etc.

What do you guys think? Was the Reaper of Souls beta test sufficient and effective? Are you surprised they’re shutting it down so far before advance, rather than expanding it to basically let everyone in, the way the WoW expansions ramp up to release? Are you happy since this probably means we’ll see Diablo 3 v2 sooner rather than later, perhaps literally in the “couple of weeks” Josh Mosqueria mentioned in that recent interview from Korea?

How was the Reaper of Souls beta test?

1) Good test. Mission accomplished. Time to shut it down.

2) The RoS beta test wasn't long/thorough enough.

3) Blizzard should have opened it up to everyone and run it until Launch.